Monday, March 03, 2008

Cleveland nights

Obama is starting to scare me some. He's winning the Democratic nomination, kicking Hillary's butt with the rhetoric of hope and change. He's got the sophisticated advisors, he gets it right the first time.

But holy crap, people, have you seen the stuff coming out of his mouth in Ohio? Isn't it astonishing? Either it's simply wink-wink posturing, in which case how's he a break from business as usual? or he means it which makes you wonder what Austan Goolsbee's been smoking.

He is 100% committed to re-negotiating or pulling out of NAFTA? The vehemence of the rhetoric is so far out of line with the reality of the situation, that it must be a farce, but can it be? Obama the Cynic? He's even channelling his inner Ricky Bobby, loudly proclaiming "I pray to Jesus every night".

Hillary is even funnier of course, but I already expected that and have her pegged. It's pure cynicial pandering on her part. She knows good and well that NAFTA hasn't hurt the US and she probably even knows that the top two destinations for Ohio's exports are Mexico and Canada.

3 comments:

When will you economists finally accept (and thus stop being surprised by) the fact that politicians have no incentive to maximize social welfare first? Sheesh, the man's trying to get himself elected.